Recording device for boot-black stands.



C. BROUGHTON.

RECORDING DEVICE EUR BOOT BLACK STANDS. APPLIGATIO! rmzn 5231'. s. 1905.

PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

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RECORDING DEVICE FOR BOOT BLACK STANDS. APPLICATION mum SEPT. a, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHAUNOY BROUGHTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO OROMWELL FELTON AND ONE-THIRD TO SAMUEL DASH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed September 8, 1905. Serial No. 277,555.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAUNOY BROUGI-ITON, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Recording Devices for Boot-Black Stands, of which the following description, in commotion with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a chair with a recording device, whereby the number of persons sitting in the chair may be permanently recorded.

My invention is primarily designed for chairs used by boot-blacks; but it is of course applicable to chairs used for any other purpose.

The recording device employed by me consists, essentially, of a paper feeding and in denting or puncturing device constructed and arranged to feed forward a strip of paper a short distance each time it is operated and to indent or puncture the strip, so that at the end of the day the strip which has been fed forward and indented or punctured may be detached and the number of indentures or punctures counted. The permanent record thus produced maybe kept, if desired. As a means for operating said recording devicea bar is attached to the two side legs of the chair and a connection provided between said bar and the recording device, and a spring or equivalent is employed for holding the vacant chair with its two side legs elevated a short distance and when said spring is compressed, as by a person sitting in the chair, the bar is caused to actuate the recording device.

Figure 1 showsin front elevation and partial vertical section a boot-black stand and recording device embodying this invention for recording the number of persons occupying the chair. Fig. 2 is a side view of the stand and recording device, the chair being vacant. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, the chair being occupied. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the recording device. Fig. 5 is a detail showing the under feeding-roll for the paper, having spurs attached to indent or puncture the paper. Fig. 6 is a detail showing a portion of the strip of paper which has been indented or punctured.

(1 represents the chair, which may be of any suitable or usual construction, and b the boxlike base upon which the chair is placed, forming what is ordinarily termed a boot' black stand.

The recording device embodying this invention, which is adapted to record the number of persons occupying the chair, is contained in the base l). The recording device herein shown comprises, essentially, a pair of paperfeeding rolls 0 d, arranged one upon the other and close together to receive the paper between them and feed it along as the rolls are rotated. The paper c is taken from any suitable reel 6. The under feeding-roll d is formed with several spurs d, projecting from its face, which are adapted to indent or puncture the paper which passes between the two rolls, and these spurs will be located at suitable distances apart. The feeding-rolls are operated intermittingly or step by step to feed the paper, each step or operation of the feeding-rolls indicating a person sitting in the chair, and hence the spurs will be arranged on the feeding-roll d at such distances apart that one spur will engage the paper at each operation of the feeding-rolls and indent or puncture the paper. The upper feeding-roll c has secured to it or to its shaft a ratchetwheel c, and an arm 0 is loosely mounted on said shaft or is otherwise pivotally supported which bears a pawl 0 which engages said ratchet-wheel. The arm a is suitably ex tended to be engaged by a plunger-rod f, which is moved up and down for the purpose of operating said pawl-carrying arm, and thereby advancing the ratchet-wheel step by step to correspondingly move the feedingrolls. The arm is pressed down by the plunger-rod and is raised by a spring 0 which is connected to a rear extension on the arm or to some part of the arm.

The plunger employed for operating the paper feeding and indenting device, which, as herein shown, serves as the recording device, extends up through a hole in the top of the base and is attached to a bar 9 at a point intermediate its length, and said bar is attached at its ends to two of the legs of the chairas, for instance, to the two side legs h h. One side of the chair is normally elevated a short distance above the top of the base and is adapted to be depressed by a person sitting in the chair, and, as herein shown,

the two side legs are normally elevated. A strong spring 'L is employed for the purpose of elevating one side of the chair, which, as herein shown, encircles the plunger-rod f and bears at its upper end against a shoulder on the plunger-rod and at its lower end against a strap or bracket i, which is secured to the under side of the top of the base. This spring actsto raise the side of the chair by exerting its force against the shoulder on the plungerrod; but it is obvious that the spring may be otherwise dis osed to act to raise one sideof the chair witl fout departing from this invention.

Whenever a person sits in the chair, the two side legs thereof are depressed against the action of the spring i and the recording device is operated. This particular form of recording device has the advantage of producing a permanent record of the number of persons occupying the chair, the number being obtainedby counting the number of indentures or punctures in the strip of paper; but other forms of recording devices may be employed in connection with the chair, which is normally held with its two side legs elevated and which will be operated by a person occupyingit and depressing the side legs, so I do not desire to limit my invention to the employment of the particular construction of recording device herein shown, notwithstandin its many advantages.

aving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a tilting chair and a hollow base supporting it, of a recording device in said base, an actuating device therefor, a plunger projecting through a hole in said base which is adapted to engage said actuating device, a cross-bar secured to two of the legs of the chair engaging said plunger,

. the chair with two of its and a spring for lifting said plunger and for 1 holding the chair with two of its legs elevated, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a tilting chair, of means for holding it with two of its I legs in elevated position, a pair of paper-feeding rolls, one of which has spurs projecting from its face, means for rotating said feeding-rolls to feed the paper and indent it, a plunger for operating said means, and a cross-bar attached to the legs of the chair for operating said plunger, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a chair, of means i for holding it with two of its legs in elevated position, a pair of paper-feeding rolls, one of which has spurs projecting from its face, and means connected with the chair for rotating said feeding-rolls to feed the paper and indent it when the elevated legs thereof are depressed, substantially as described. 7

4. The combination with a tilting chair, of a paper feeding and indenting device, means for operating it to feed and indent the paper,

a plunger for operating said means, a crossbar attached to two of the le s of the chair which is engaged by said p unger, and a spring for lifting the plun er and for holding egs elevated, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a tilting chair, of a recording device, an actuating device therefor, a plunger for operating said actuating device, a cross-bar attached to two of the I legs of the chair which is engaged-by said plunger and a spring for lifting the plunger and for holding the chair with two of its legs elevated, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name tothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAUNOY BROUGHTON.

Witnesses:

B. J. NOYES, H. B. DAVIS. 

